Friday, 7. September 2007
Topic: Universe - on September 7, 2007 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes Find "Lego-Block" Galaxies in Early Universe
NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant universe. Blazing with the brilliance of millions of stars, each of the newly discovered galaxies is a hundred to a thousand times smaller than our Milky Way Galaxy.
"These are among the lowest mass galaxies ever directly observed in the early universe," says Nor Pirzkal of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency in Baltimore, Md.
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